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By Dan Nonte, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-4314
Posted 4-17-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The annual Kendon Smith Lecture Series will focus on social anxiety in childhood Thursday and Friday, April 23-24, in Elliott University Center Auditorium.
Sponsored by the Department of Psychology, the lecture series – “Social Anxiety in Childhood: Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives” – is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Melanie Nickerson at mdnicker@uncg.edu or (336) 334-5480.
Parking is available in the Walker Avenue Parking Deck. A campus map is available online at http://parking.uncg.edu/map.html.
Thursday, April 23
• 2-2:15 p.m. – Introductory remarks
o Dr. George Michel, opening remarks
o Dr. Walter Salinger, history of the Kendon Smith Lecture Series
o Dr. Heidi Gazelle, introduction to series on social anxiety in childhood
• 2:15-3:30 p.m. – “Conceptual Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety Disorders in Preschool Children;” Dr. Ronald M. Rapee, director of the Centre for Emotional Health and Professor in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University, Australia
• 3:45-5 p.m. – “Mechanisms of Attention Moderate Relations Between Temperament and Anxiety in Children;” Dr. Nathan A. Fox, distinguished university professor in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland
Friday April 24
• 9-9:30 a.m. – continental breakfast
• 9:30-10:45 a.m. – “Developmental Pathways to Social Anxiety Disorder: Familial and Temperamental Risk Factors and Early Intervention;” Dr. Dina R. Hirshfeld-Becker, director of High Risk Studies and Anxiety Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
• 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – “Parent-Child Relationships and Social Anxiety in Middle Childhood: Considering Unique Influences and Mediating Mechanisms;” Dr. Kathryn Kerns, professor in the Department of Psychology at Kent State University
• 12:15-1 p.m. – Roundtable discussion moderated by Dr. Ronald Rapee
The Kendon Smith Lecture Series has been bringing national and international experts to UNCG since 1984, when Janice Stewart Baucom of Concord established an endowment to honor Dr. Kendon Smith. Smith served as head of the psychology department from 1954-67 and held an Alumni Professorship from 1969 until his retirement in 1983. He died in 2002.